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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1938
Page
6
An excerpt of Alfred Tennyson's poem urging leaving behind old quarrels and injustices. It calls for ringing out false pride and conflict and ringing in truth, peace, and noble virtues for a better future. The verse appeals to universal renewal and moral improvement.
Holly decorates homes and churches across America during Christmas linking pagan, Druids, and Roman traditions. Native holly faced overharvesting in the Northeast, now mostly grown from Virginia to Florida along the Atlantic coast and west to Louisiana. The plant pictures sharp toothed leaves and crimson berries. berries appear at five years, male and female trees differentiate later.
In Ilchester England villagers revive a Norman era custom as they catch kill and dress a badger before Christmas Eve. The animal is spit over a large inn fire and served after a fingerless toast amid singing and communal revelry. The event draws almost all local residents and nearby farmers.
We express thanks to all who supported us and helped win a bicycle in The Paris Post subscription campaign which ended last Saturday night.
The unincorporated Indiana village Santa Claus attracts thousands of letter senders each December. The post office handles a high volume, using its famous Santa Claus postal stamp to cancel many letters while Abraham Lincoln is noted as having lived there in youth.
Roman records show Christmas celebrated from 354 A.D. with the feast spreading from west to east. Earlier nativity and baptism commemorations were set on January 6. First English observance noted in 598 after St. Augustine baptized 10 600 converts.
A garbled note explores how the turkey acquired its name. It cites theories from Europe and early trade, mentioning Spain Hebrew merchants and the old word tuk for peacock as possible roots. The text blends conjecture with fragmented phrases about turkeys in America.
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